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If the young British farmers were aware how various and 

 amusing are our rustic occupations ; how profuse is the profit 

 which attends every httle exertion of industry ; how richly 

 productive is the incessant vegetation of our excellent soil and 

 climate ; and how much of natural luxury there is in the habits 

 and gratifications of the civilized planter, they would more 

 commonly migrate to a country, where the fee simple of an 

 estate costs less than the renewal of a lease in England, and 

 where the superintendence of an agricultural concern, confers 

 not merely the rank of a country gentleman, but that baron-like 

 authority over the growing population of the vassals, which 

 the ancestors of the country gentlemen enjoyed in England 

 during the feudal ages. 



